Facts from Chapter 2 of The Wisconsin Journey
Compiled by Erika, Laura, and Joe
There are 5 regions in Wisconsin.
The longest river in Wisconsin is the Wisconsin River.
A big business in Wisconsin today is dairy.
An old job in Wisconsin was lumber jacking.
Wisconsin’s state animal is the badger.
The Western Upland, one of the regions, was never covered in glaciers during the Ice Age.
Back in the 1800’s and 1900’s, people thought they’d never run out of trees to cut.
It took one month to travel from New York to Wisconsin by stagecoach.
Wisconsin produces about one-third of the country’s cheese.
Wisconsin has the second largest amount of dairy cows of all the states.
